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NCTA To FCC: Hands Off Broadband Classification

  • B&C, Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:36 PM
Cable operators represented by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association told the FCC that it has no legal authority to classify any part of broadband Internet access service as a common carrier. That position came response to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposed "third way," in which the FCC would reclassify the transmission element of broadband under some Title II common carrier regs.

NCTA said trying to reclassify the service, which a prior FCC concluded should be regulated under the lighter-touch Title I information service classification, was "fundamentally at odds" with the nature of the Internet." NCTA argues that the "third way" would be a sure way to discourage investment.

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